23 Oct 1841
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Newspaper
Tarboro Press
Location
Tarboro, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Oct 23, 1841
Page
1
The Tarborough Press announces weekly publication at two dollars fifty cents per year paid in advance or three dollars for any period under a year. Advertisements up to a square cost one dollar for the first insertion and twenty five cents for each continuation. Court orders and judicial ads are twenty five percent higher. Letters to the editor must be postpaid.
Advertises a range of patent medicines by A J Marrells offering preparations like Sarsaparilla extracts for scrofula and debility, Buchu and Uva Ursi for urinary diseases, Camomile Tonic for fever and ague, Antispasmodic cordial, Cough mixture, Tomato pills, tooth powder, and a medicinal paste. Prices range from 50 cents to 1 per bottle or box. Promotes concentrated forms and claims universal cures and physician use. Office of Geo. Howard, agent.
Unpublished poem fragment from College Reveries notes Miss Stanza XIX as the Gem of beauty. The speaker contrasts Byronesque praise with ambition and longing. It references a desert, nature imagery, and a vow of farewell to the beloved, ending with there is nothing on earth so fair as you.
An Edinburg physician debunks dietary and health myths. He argues variety aids digestion, warns against cooling after heavy sweating, advocates quick immersion in water, and forbids harsh cold exposure for infants. He stresses moderate warmth for children and keeping heads cool while promoting sleep as essential.
A medical note discusses varied sleep needs from five to eight hours and reports social teasing of longer sleepers. It then argues salt intake is vital for health, linking salt scarcity to intestinal worms and citing a Dutch corporal punishment that denied salt to criminals. The piece criticizes reducing salt for children as cruel and absurd.
Three abolitionists Burr Work and Thompson were tried convicted and sentenced to the Penitentiary for twelve years for enticing away slaves from this State. The St. Louis Bulletin notes the harsh verdict as a warning to fanatic abolitionists elsewhere.
The Louisville Journal reports Woodford County residents bought the fine farm where Hon J J Crittenden was born and presented it to him for seventeen thousand dollars. A Troy Iron Works official, H Burden, writes the Whig proposing radical steam boat speed using railroad-like propulsion on the Hudson and other navigable rivers.
Texas reports from Galveston and Houston papers up to the 15th and 16th inst. The arrival of the Yucatan minister follows Santa Anna’s movements toward an invasion of the Peninsula. Houston likely elected president with Burleson as vice president. Dom Moore and Texan schooners planned to intercept a Mexican vessel leaving Havana. New Orleans Bulletin.
From Batavia we learn the rail road to Bullilo will soon be finished Rochester and Auburn line seven or eight miles remain cars cross Cayuga Lake on the new bridge and soon the entire line will run The Boston road to Albany is nearly complete and the last link will join Buffalo to Boston a nearly six hundred mile chain unmatched in the world Longer than any English line and a marvel of railroad enterprise.
A young woman named Stevenson was murdered at the Cambridge Almshouse in Cambridgeport, Massachusetts. The suspected killer is William H. Briton, about fifty seven, a man with literary attainments who served as a teacher there. He reportedly formed a violent attachment and proposed marriage.
A young Irish woman, about twenty, reading scripture to her COTA PATON on Sunday, was stabbed by Britton who drew a large carving knife from his bosom and struck her through the heart. She staggered toward the door and died on the third step. Britton was jailed.
A German pastor Hohnholz faced immorality charges in Boston as Regina Hellmish testified he deceived her into a sham marriage and took her to Salem for a night as his wife. She believed the ceremony was valid while he preached at his church next day. The case hints at broader social hypocrisy and pending outcome. A separate note describes a locksmith halting a runaway horse by gripping its nose in the faubourg St. Martin, saving a woman. crowd gathered.
A Paris physician invented an instrument named asphymonmeter. It exposes to the eye the action and strength of the pulse and measures it. He developed the system to reveal anomalies and provide exactitude in assessing the pulse. The device aims to aid physicians in difficult cases.
Five boys ages twelve to fifteen played near a baltimore Bel Air road bank when it gave way. Three fell into the pit and were buried and died despite forty minutes of efforts. Two on top escaped but warned others too late.
The Quebec Gazette reports the bark Amanda, Captain Davis, sailing from Limerick to Quebec, ran ashore at Little Metis Point on the 26th ult. Forty passengers and a crew of 18 were aboard. 41 lives are lost with 29 passengers and 12 crew missing or dead.
The Philadelphia Inquirer notes a grand transtam er now under construction at Billistal Eng will be one of the world’s most extraordinary mechanical feats upon completion. It will carry five masts with a tonnage near 3000. The lagthon deck spans 324 feet and four engines of 300 horsepower each are planned. Completion is hoped by May, with a design favoring the Archimedes screw but paddle wheels can be added if needed, and the hull is divided into compartments for safety.
Fragment describes vessel construction and safety checks with phrases about workmanship in high style. Mentions water filling before launch and lightness testing. References a valued iron and an estimated cost amid a captain named Hosken and a likely shipyard context.
Mr Geo Griffin takes out a patent for a rafting invention to reflotton bales like logs. Bales wrapped in waterproof canvas are released into river currents and joined to form a raft that floats in shallow water. The system promises reduced transport cost for cotton.
A young man named Carroll in wahute county was bitten by a copperhead last week. The rapid spread of venom prevented him from reaching the house. friends found him on the ground unable to speak and pointing to a bush where the snake lay, dying within minutes.
English ship India en route from Greenock to New Holland caught fire after a crew member lit brandy in a store room. French steamer Roland under Capt. Deagannet reached the scene within moments and rescued 198 passengers and crew, including 40 women, despite heavy seas. 18 others leaped into the sea against orders.
The Philadelphia Saturday Courier reports a head on collision on the Boston to Hudson line. The westbound train struck the eastbound, cars behind the tender shattered and 20 to 25 injured. Notables injured include engineer Mr Taylor, conductor Mr Warren, and a young lady related to May Whistler. Col Harvey Chapin was bruised, Rev S Elliot and party were brought to United States Hotel. the two sons suffered minor and severe injuries.
A letter to the editor promotes a medicinal mixture using red Peruvian bark and Cremor Variar with cloves, to be taken hourly starting before the chill. The writer urges cleansing the stomach with a caromel pill after a saline purge, claiming the remedy works in extensive practice.
The New York Express notes British plans to build armed steamships on the lakes, stirring frontier concerns. The article argues this may violate the treaty between Great Britain and the United States restricting each nation to one vessel on Lake Ontario not exceeding 100 tons and 18 pounder cannon, with a cap also on the Upper Lakes.
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